Here's a little story.... Well last summer i installed a full westfalia interior into my sunroof van (which has a westfalia poptop on it). I did not wire up the electrics for the westfalia stuff at that time, but did have the propane system working. I had been running the fridge on propane and while it does blow out while i'm driving (I haven't made any effort to fix this yet), i am quite happy with it. Well, over the winter i wired up the electronics and installed a "second battery". I say that half heartily, as my current setup involves a 7.5ah 12v gel cell, as it's what i had lying around as was more of a "proof of concept" wiring to make sure my charge system and westy system worked. The battery does not hold a charge, so the westy systems only ahve power with the engine running. I had the fridge running on propane for the first time of the season yesterday, and when i started up the car i heard this fanatastic squeel. It sounded like my rear blower motor was dying, so i checked the switch and it was sure enough, in the off position. Finally i remembered that it was the fan on the westy fridge firing up for the first time in a while (The fridge is out of an '80 westy, that sat in storage for at LEAST 15 years, i have records of 15 years). The squeeling finally silenced, and i am extatic to say, my westfalia installation is that much more complete now! It really startled me when it came on, but i am glad it works. This should lower my fridge temps significantly. Now on to bigger, and more Ford powered things : ) -Craig '85GL turned WESTY Recieving a BOSTIG conversion. |
Please note - During the past 17 years of operation, several gigabytes of
Vanagon mail messages have been archived. Searching the entire collection
will take up to five minutes to complete. Please be patient!
Return to the archives @ gerry.vanagon.com
The vanagon mailing list archives are copyright (c) 1994-2011, and may not be reproduced without the express written permission of the list administrators. Posting messages to this mailing list grants a license to the mailing list administrators to reproduce the message in a compilation, either printed or electronic. All compilations will be not-for-profit, with any excess proceeds going to the Vanagon mailing list.
Any profits from list compilations go exclusively towards the management and operation of the Vanagon mailing list and vanagon mailing list web site.